UPLEADON, United Kingdom (AFP) ― Badgers are shy creatures, their black-and-white coats often darting out of human sight ― but in Britain, a fierce band of protesters has been working through the ...

Badger culling is unlikely to be a cost-effective way of helping control cattle TB in Britain, according to research published today in PLoS ONE. The authors of the study, from Imperial College London ...

A decade-long policy of badger culling to tackle bovine tuberculosis (bTB) in England will come to a close, the government has confirmed, as pressure mounts from campaigners and cross-party MPs to ...

Government officials have given the go-ahead for a fresh round of badger culling, starting immediately – against advice from their own scientific chief. Natural England is believed to have authorised ...

image: A study led by researchers at international conservation charity ZSL (Zoological Society of London) and Imperial College London has found that culling drives badgers to roam 61% further afield ...

Intensive badger culling to tackle TB in livestock will be gradually phased out and a cattle vaccine for the disease will be deployed, the government has announced. The next phase of the government's ...

The slapstick sketch carries a serious message as the pair come out of retirement to deliver a damning verdict on a bid by farmers to kill 100,000 of the animals in a bid to prevent the spread of ...

The study indicates the practice drives the surviving creatures to cover 61% more land each month than before the cull began. Researchers from the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) and Imperial ...

The badger cull will end by the close of this season, Defra secretary Angela Eagle confirmed in parliament, marking the clearest signal yet that the Labour government is moving away from lethal ...